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'FREDERICK CVEBJBURY, GF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 'EJO FLENTKOTE MANU- EACTURING COMPANY, OF RUTHEB'FRD, NEYJ JERSEY, A. CORPRTON 0F NEW JERSEY.

Specicationof Letters Patent. *Patented Dee, "Z, i909,

Application filed )February 18, 19053. 'Serial No. 416,547.

such material being termed roofing;7 which terni l will employ for convenience hereinafter.v ln Letters Pat-ent No. 881,024, granted to me March 3, 1908, l have described and claimed a cylindrical roong package composed of a sheet of iiefrible roo-ling material longitudinally subdivided into a plurality of roofing strips having serrated and abutting edges, and wound into a roll With the projections or serrations of one strip alternating with the projections or serrations of the abutting strip.

ln manufacturing serrated rooting, it is desirable to have the two faces of the rooting strips of different tinte, shades or colors so that they may be laid upon che roof or Wall with each alternate strip reversed so as to produce a pleasant varied appearance. l

. have found that in rolling the. subdivided sheet of roofing material intoa cylindrical roll or package, on univinding the rollend laying the strips in alternation as described, the serrations of one strip are outwardly convex and the serrations of the next cent strips outwardly concave. ln order to overcome this disadvantage and 'to produce a llat laying roof, 'the present 'invention c nsists in a roofing package coin ed of a sheet of flexible roofing material ivi 'ise i'acesl are of di'terent colors, shades or tints, said sheetbeing longitudinally subdivided into a plurality of roofing strips havin.;y serrated edges, one of said strips having- Jface of one color uppermost, and the other stiip" having a face oi'another color upp 'rumah so that the sheet a Whole, presents to the eye two dierent shades, colors or tints.

@n the accompanying drawings, 'fligure l represents a sheeto exihleroopgqnaterial longitudinally subdivided into two roofing' strips having abutting -sernated edges. Fig. 2 represents the saine sheet with one of the strapsreversed.partially rolled into a package. y'

0n the said drawing'sha 'indicates a sheet Atected by the projections ofthe admitting yably be protected by of siitable flexible rooting material of such ith that it is adapted to be longitudinally subdivided into a plurality of operative roof-- ing'strips b. 'l` his sheet is longitudinally subdivided into said strips by means or a Zio'zag cnt c-in such orin as to create tongues or serrations c on each strip. ln using the `terno zigzag, l do not limit myself to angular serrations only, as the serrations or alternating projections and recesses may have curved or scalloped edges if desired. @ne face of thesheet has a facing or coating of any suitable color, tint or shade, Whereas the other face of the sheet has a facing or coating oi another color, tint or shade. This may be accomplished by the use of suitable pigments in the material with which the sheet is coated or faced. Two different shades of red 'may be used or the faces of the sheet may be red and brown.

After the sheet' las been longitudinally` subdivided as shown in Fig. l, one of the' reeling strips is reversed as shown in Fig. i2, and its serrations or projections are 1nsorted in the corresponding recesses in the other strip so that the sheet itself is parti' colored, ohehalt being ott one color or tint, as shown at Z in Fig. 2, and the 'other being of another color, or tint asshown at, ein said figure. rlhe sheet with the projections of one strip alternating Witfhland being prostrip is then wound into a cylindricalrooiing roll as indicated at eso that it may be shipped or stored Without injuryto' the serratioiis, The rooting package will preferl. an outer coveringof papesbr other similar or suitable material which will prevent the'coils or cdnvolutions thereof from unwinding. i

lt will be seen. that, When the two strips, oi? which the roll is composed, are separated, unrolled and laid upon a roo'f with their contrasting 'outer faces uppermost, one strip partially overlapping the other,l and projections ofthe overlapped strip in turn over-r lapping another strip contrasting with it in color, the edges oic the projections will bear closely on the surfaces on which they are laid owing to the externally convex form inipar'ted to the projections by the operation of rollinpthe strips. The projections are therefore prevented from having a tendency to curl upwardly and separate from the surfaces on which they are laid, this statement applying,- lo the projections of each strip when the iwo strips are laid with their contrasting surfaces uppermost.

l claim As an article of manufacture,` a cylindrical rooling package, composed of a sheet of flexible roofing material, ,longitudinally subdivide-cl into :i plurality of rooting strips and wound into n roll with vthe projections of one strip alternating with the projections of the other stri p, the outer face of one strip be! ing of a Color. tint or shade dilerent from the outer tace of the othei strip, und the outer faces of the projections of both strips being convexed crosswisc by the winding of the 15 strips, whereby, when the two strips are laid with their contrasting faces outward', the edges of the projections will bear closely on the surfaces on which they nrelaid.

In testimony whereof I have alllxecl my -20 signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

FREDERICK C. OVERB URY.

itnesscs (JUAS. E. ToLHURs'r, Jois. lV. BURGESS. 

